Have I Committed a Faux Pas?

I've been playing GW - mostly PvE for about 9 months now, but am only just getting to the point of accumulating reasonable amounts of gold and trading, working towards titles etc.

I had managed to buy some party title points in the form of a couple stacks of ghosts-in-the-box. These were bought with funds earned fair and square in the game, with an in-game trade with another player.

I was standing in Kamadan American district and while watching the trading window was spamming some of these points. I then recieved a very rude whisper telling me to 'GO TO YOUR GUILD HALL. ****ING IDIOT'

Have I broken any game rules or been unknowingly rude (in which case sorry!) or was I just unlucky enough to meet a stroppy adolescent on a bad day?

Any advice - I don't want to be causing offence unwittingly.

That guy was just some random idiot/angry person/troll. Ignore him. There is nothing wrong with spamming items in outposts. If anyone is seriously bothered by it, they could just change districts, and even if they didn't want to do that they could have used some politeness. I'd have told him to get stuffed.

Admitedly though the ghost box is one of the more annoying consumables mainly because of that screeching sound it makes espeacially when it is non stop when you are spamming them.

Ignore him, you're totally free to spam consumables in outposts. It doesn't bother me.

Yup, ignore him.

People spam their points in outposts all the time. Yes, the GIB is a bit annoying because of the screeching, but that's just how it was made and people are used to it. Not everyone has a guild hall to go to - that's what outposts are for.

If you get a message like that again, just put them on ignore and go about your business. If you're honestly worried about it in the future, and don't have a GH to go to, just take yourself off to any minor outpost where there are unlikely to be people (there are plenty of those) and spam away.

But seriously, I wouldn't worry about it. You didn't do anything wrong.

Nope, that was a troll.

I would have opened a few boxes right behind him. Maybe one of them might have gone up his behind and knocked some common curtesy into his head .

Thank you all very much - I feel better about it now.

I do take the point about the noise - I wasn't wearing my headphones this morning so was probably oblivious to how loud it might have been.

Thanks again

And the fact that it completely lags up the district if theres a lot of it going on, no reason not to do it in your GH imo. Nothing technically wrong with it, but its common courtesy on your part to do it in your GH, and he should have had the common courtesy not to abuse you like that about it. Your computer might be well able for it, but im sure some people in the district dont have computers strong enough for the lag this causes, next time just do it in your GH Courtesy goes both ways

Getting off on a technicality doesn't always mean your innocent *insert random OJ Simpson joke here*

Yes I see what you mean about the lag from the excess graphical effects. OK, I'll spam to my hearts content in my Guild Hall from now on :-)

Personally, I have no problem with it, just to clarify that But I am just playing devils advocate and saying where that guy was probably coming from

On a side note, I remember not too many months ago when I saw my first fireworks in game (in Factions) and I thought it was great; now my first thought is "More damn fireworks going off again." Though I've set them off myself a few times after getting the travellers' gift of the disco ball.

No. You are fine. That fellow does not know what he was talking about. No one should get offended by what you did, seriously.

@ syronj -

Yes I remember Wintersday last year - we'd only reached Lion's Arch a few months before, and when it changed it was magical, especially with all the fireworks and snowman summoners going off. My two oldest sons play GW with me and really loved it.

But - yes, the magic does wear off after a while :-)

if you're worried about lag you should switch districts. Why ruin someone else's fun.

Just remember the guy's name, next time you see him go next to him and open up a can of ghost whoop box on him.

I would of reported him for language violation / harassment...

People spamming party items in outposts, even GIB, is one of my favorite parts of the game. There's nothing better than fighting your way through hordes of monsters and coming into an outpost party. The very first time my wife and I got to Lion's Arch, someone was spamming fireworks, GIB, and that sort of thing, and that's still my all-time favorite GW moment. I think it was the very tail end of the Halloween celebration, too.

So, please, keep it up!

I'm not sure you are sane.

You do know that if someone is lagging you, he ruins YOUR fun? I mean... is it that much of a hassle for 1 person to go to a Russian or Polish district and spam things there? I mean it's ignorable for me, but your post is REALLY selfish.

"I WANNA DO WHAT I WANT IF YOU DONT LIKE IT THEN YOU CAN GGGGET OUT!"

Some people dislike it.

Other people enjoys it.

I've seen a few people look and enjoy when a friend of mine and I just go on spamming thousands of snowmen and stuff - I think for some new players it is nice. For veterans is more "meh".

Seems like the consumables were killing his FPS or the sounds/animations were annoying him.

As my wise mother, being a poet laureate with an honors degree with distinction in Shakespearean studies would say: "tough shite."

A while back, most tonics had associated sounds which were removed for being irritating in outposts so if Anet thought party fireworks were a problem then they'd do something about it. No violation has occured.

Personally I enjoy when people spam such stuff